kaal:claim:3782217-024

Contrary to the common fear, wide scale decentralization of media power will not collapse centralized corporations, just as Napster and BitTorrent did not collapse the centralized music companies; decentralization does not take power from centralized actors, it increases everyone's power.

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Wide scale decentralization of power in the media will not collapse the power of centralized corporations, any more than file sharing services like Napster and Bit- Torrent6 collapsed the power of the centralized music companies.

From

Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021), News and education, p. 9
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217 · source PDF

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Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of History In Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782217

Holds when

incumbents willing to participate in the new collaborative networks

Classification

mechanismsupport: argueddecentralization

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